Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Marketing with Twitter

Twitter isn’t just a popular way to let your followers know the latest thought to your mind, it’s also a great way to marketing your site, products and brand to new customers and new audiences.

Twitter is used by all types of people across the planet. Connecting people in real-time, you can tweet on your mobile phone or online, which means that information can be constantly and immediately shared.

Using Twitter to build your brand, share information and market your company is a great way to use social media to its full advantage. First, consider your business. What is your brand? Who is your customer? Tools to advance their careers? Personal satisfaction? Enlightenment?
Once you’ve got a complete sense of brand and business image, you’ll be able to use Twitter to showcase your services. The key to marketing is messaging. What type of email newsletters get a response? What are your site gets the most attention? This will inform you as to what your customers prefer, and you can use that to shape your Twitter marketing plan.

You can convert that to Twitter by creating ‘Tweet Tips’ and encourage your users to sign up to follow you on Twitter by sending a tip a day. You can include a link to your site or an affiliate link that’s related to the tip.
This will cement for your users your credibility as a source of information and expertise.
If it’s the latest niche news that gets you traffic, tweeting relevant headlines and links to articles, and blog posts will show how up-to-date and relevant your business is.
It’s another way you are providing your customers with a service and building trust in your brand as a source of knowledge.
Watch the response to your tweets to see if you are tweeting too much, or can tweet some more. Start slow, but stay regular. After all, reliability is an important and profitable attribute. Using Twitter to marketing your business can show how reliable and accessible your brand really is!

5 Tips to Making Money with Twitter

Twitter is the latest form of instant communication. Acclimated for news updates, cartage information, claimed whereabouts, and celebrity sightings, to name a few, Twitter is acclimated by bodies of all ages and personalities beyond the planet.

While a tweet has to be 140 characters or less, a message can leave a abiding impression. Connecting people in real-time which means that information can be constantly and immediately shared.

Don’t belittle the ability of Twitter! A anxiously worded tweet can actuate the masses of followers to avoid a brand, bluster adjoin a ruling, or appearance their support.

Twitter can help you business stay connected internally as well as with your customers. It can advance and improve your customer service, by enabling you to accept acknowledgment anon and through a casual medium.

But there are ways in which Twitter can build your business besides connecting you with your customers. Twitter can be monetized.
Here are some tips on how to tweet your way to a new revenue stream:

Send Followers to One of Your Websites
This is a simple way to start. All you charge to do is accommodate the articulation to your armpit in a tweet and profile page, and you have a new traffic stream!

Send Followers to an Affiliate Link
Like directing followers to a site of your own, you can use a tweet to send traffic to an affiliate link. Remember what you know about links from online advertising, simple tweeting a link won’t necessarily get you the results you’d want, make sure there’s some content to encourage the click.

Set up a Sponsorship for a Twitter Account
This takes a big following, as in thousands of followers. But if you have multiple accounts with large followers, you can negotiate a sponsorship deal. Sponsorship can range from ads on your profile site to direct advertisement tweets.
If you are wary of that level of advertising influence, you can arrange sponsor contests and giveaways. Your dedicated followers are your selling point to the potential sponsor. In exchange for a product or great discount, and a fee for you, you’ll promote their goods via a giveaway. This can be a great way to make money without worrying about alienating followers.

Add an Ad
Use the remaining characters of your tweet to make some money by including an ad in the remaining space. Think of it as a sign-off with sales potential!

Write a Review
Just like active a paid review on your site, you can acquire money reviewing product or casework and tweeting about it.

Sure, 140 characters ability assume limiting, but you can post a few on-topic tweets to cover content needs.